Setting listview backcolor in Access 2007, VBA

Question

I know there are a lot of discussions regarding this question out there. Unfortunately the most for VB.net. I am using Access 2007 and the ActiveX ListView control. So far it's working fine. Except setting the back ground color for an subitem or a column is not working.

[EDIT]
To be more specific. In VB the following should work:
editListView1.Items(i).UseItemStyleForSubItems = false editListView1.Items(i).SubItems(8).BackColor = Color.LightGray

Unfortunately in VBA the "items" property is not available. If i use editListView1.ListItems(i).UseItemStyleForSubItems , I get an error.

on the other hand changing the fore color works without any problem:
objListView.ListItems.Item(intRowCount).ListSubItems.Item(intColCount).ForeColor = vbRed

I really would appreciate your help.

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming your using the Microsoft Listview Control from mscomctl/comctl32.ocx then you cannot set the background colour of an individual row or sub-item, you can only set the foreground colour .

The only way around that is to go through the tedious steps of custom drawing it.